It is the year 2000. The treacherous Destrons have been replaced, along with the Cybertrons, to make way for Takara's newest Transformers series:
Car Robots. It changed pretty much everything. Gone (for the most part) were the beasts we had come to know and love, now the Cybertrons were vehicles and Convoy was a FAIYAA ENJIN, his cohorts were expensive luxury vehicles with ridiculous disproportionate bodies, and together they waged a war against Gigatron and his evil Destrongers. (Although one of them, that shark fellow, had the spirit of a poet and the intelligence of a stone.)
It was refreshing to see Transformers begin to return to their roots, vehicles, but the series was notorious for including a new character we hadn't seen done before.... Black Convoy. An evil clone of Convoy? Balderdash!
And so began the evil Convoy/Optimus clone repaints. (I know what you're thinking "Hey! There was a Lio Convoy colored to look like Galvatron, years before that, mister!" I know, but he wasn't Nemesis colored, so there.
Okay, okay, there WAS a Nemesis colored Lio Convoy, but meh.)
Of course, Masterpiece couldn't be left out of that list of toylines due to receive an evil Optimus, oh no. Heck, we've seen some rather crazy stuff in Transformers, including a mish mash of Transformers and Evangelion! (You can see that gallery, here.) So, a Nemesis Prime/Black Convoy repaint in Masterpiece is not only not surprising, but expected!
And that brings us to the first of today's newest gallery: Masterpiece MP-1B Convoy Black Version! Oh and even though he wears the coat of evil, this dude's all good and saint like, so it's Optimus, going through an emo phase, apparently. He should've come with headphones so he could listen to The Cure.
Wait, what's that you say? "There's another gallery included with this, tell us about that!" You're right, my apologies. MP-4S Convoy Sleep Version is yet another repaint of yet another Convoy/Optimus mold (you don't say!) and also a Masterpiece! (Starting to see the trend, here?!)
For those of you who don't know, this Masterpiece is based on one of the worst scenes in Transformers history, the death of Optimus Prime. It wasn't bad enough that Hasbro and Sunbow teamed up to create Transformers: The Movie, which was really The Quest For More Money: Let's Kill Off All The Good Characters To Make Way For New Ones: The Movie. It wasn't enough to make kids all sad inside and out watching their beloved Optimus Prime die, oh no, they had to go full throttle and make his body decay and turn gray and black before our very eyes. (Our young, heartbroken eyes.) Here comes Takara Tomy to the rescue because no one had made a dead Optimus figure before!
And that brings us to our second gallery of the day: MP-4S Convoy Sleep Version
You can see both figures and their galleries by clicking on the respective images below. When you're done checking them out, come on back to the forums and share your thoughts with us!
New Galleries: Masterpiece MP-1B Convoy Black Version and MP-4S Convoy Sleep Version
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